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Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"

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From: Bill Newton
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <01bc750e$7441ea00$5af62581@dferner>, "Daniel P.
Ferner" <dfe...@concentric.net> writes
>That's not true, just because the numbers (2000) change, that doesn't mean
>100 (or 1000) years have gone by.  We don't hit that mark until Midnight
>Dec 31 2000.  The start of the new century and millenium.

As I understand things a 'Millenium' is a span of a thousand years.
Does it not follow therefore that we shall  be celebrating our ENTRY
into the second Millenium immediately after midnight on 31st
December 1999?


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Bill Newton
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From: Bill Newton <Bi...@notwen.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
Date: 1997/06/09
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